Facebook IPO: What happens when the dust settles?
So it’s official. The starting figure for Facebook shares today is… US$38. It’s higher than expected (although not by much) and if many have their way it’s just the beginning. Not unsurprisingly there...
View ArticleFacebook goes crazy for Zuckerberg wedding
So it turns out people care a lot more about the fact that Mark Zuckerberg got married this weekend than they do about the fact that his company raised billion of dollars in its IPO. Want proof? Just...
View ArticleExtra shares could spell more bad news for Facebook’s Wall Street gamble
Facebook’s IPO is considered a failure in that the share price was too high to attract retail investors. There’s more bad news. More than 1.7-billion shares owned by insiders, such as employees, etc,...
View ArticleFacebook’s IPO honeymoon was over before it began… where to next?
Ah shame, poor Facebook. In the short time its stock has been on the market, it’s taken a complete pumelling. Not exactly the honeymoon present Mark Zuckerberg would’ve hoped for. His company’s listing...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg lays out plan to connect the next 5-billion
Looks like Mark Zuckerberg’s been stealing peeks at the Google play book. The founder and CEO of the billion-strong social network today announced “rough” plans to get an extra 5-billion people online....
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg’s call for global internet access needs A/B testing
Mark Zuckerberg’s call for an industry-wide effort to bring internet connectivity to billions of the world’s poorest is framed in the context of a great humanitarian crusade, he calls it “one of the...
View ArticleSamsung’s Gear, NYTimes hacked and Miley’s twerking: #StuffToKnow on the web...
Not a massive week on the web this time, most of the attention went to the gyrations of a pop singer and the ongoing Syrian crisis. Though some interesting things came up like we know for sure that the...
View ArticleApple freebies, #Music killed and Capt America back: #StuffToKnow this week
So Apple is giving away its desktop operating system for free, but you’ll still have to fork out for a thinner, lighter iPad. The site they shutdown the US government for keeps crashing. Mark...
View ArticleFacebook’s going to use drones and lasers to bring the world online. Serious.
We thought Google’s Project Loon sounded like an equal mix of ambitious and crazy, but now Facebook’s joined the game too. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced that the social network is working on...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg pours bucket of ice over his head, challenges Bill Gates
All in the name of a good cause, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has just poured a bucket of ice over his head. Zuckerberg was recently challenged by US Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie to...
View ArticleFacebook hopes to implement AI services ‘within next 10 years’
Facebook and Artificial Intelligence (AI) sounds very creepy yet exciting sitting in the same sentence, but that’s exactly where the world’s largest social network is heading. Moreover, it wants you to...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, others join to fast track clean energy innovation
Founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft’s Bill Gates — alongside a group of 26 other powerful business leaders — have launched an initiative which seeks to fast track innovation around clean...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg to donate 99% of his Facebook shares to ‘advance human...
Facebook CEO an co-founder Mark Zuckerberg plans to cash in 99% of his Facebook shares to “advance human potential and promote equality for all children in the next generation”. This announcement comes...
View ArticleSpotted: Mark Zuckerberg covers up MacBook webcam with tape?
Thanks to Edward Snowden, we know that the US government has sophisticated ways of spying on people through their gadgets. We also know that Facebook is no stranger to veering on the wrong side of the...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg’s new Hawaiian wall is pissing off locals, probably Trump too
Step aside Trump, because Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has a bigger, taller and more annoying wall than you. According to an Hawaiian newspaper report, Zuck has erected a six-foot wall along his...
View ArticleNeymar vs Mark Zuckerberg: it’s the Facebook Messenger keepy-uppy challenge
Don’t look now folks, but celebrities are now challenging one other to something that doesn’t involve ice water — the Keepy Uppy Challenge. Based on a game on Facebook Messenger (inspired by the recent...
View ArticleFacebook’s Mark Zuckerberg visits Nigeria in African knowledge quest
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is currently on a business trip to Africa, according to his Facebook page. Zuckerberg stopped over in Nigeria, Facebook‘s largest African market, to learn more...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg ‘disappointed’ by SpaceX explosion, loss of Africa satellite
In the wake of the SpaceX Falcon 9 explosion that rocked Cape Canaveral yesterday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg issued a response on Facebook. SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket explodes at Cape Canaveral Here’s...
View ArticleFacebook News Feed turns 10 today
In one way or another, Facebook users had to deal with News Feed. Be it a scorned or a pleasant interaction, one doesn’t have much choice in the matter. It seems like yesterday that the News Feed was a...
View ArticleFacebook Messenger on Windows 10 now boasts voice, video calls
Facebook Messenger’s Windows 10 app has now gained the ability to place voice and video calls. Much like Messenger on Android and iOS, the green chat icon will begin to glow green when the other user...
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